skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person who really wanted the Sharp Mobilon TriPad PV-6000, this sort of thing makes me sad for what might have been.

I almost returned my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 to Best Buy back when the stylus was crippled to scrolling by Fall Creator's Update --- even now, I constantly have to toggle its compatibility state in Windows 11 to use it with different programs.

That said, my next tech purchase is a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Wacom One 13 w/ Touch --- hopefully it will work as well as the first gen. unit did w/ an rPi 4 and I can get off this software treadmill and just focus on using the machine as opposed to re-learning whatever UI update MS is inflicting this quarter.
A democracy is dependent on people having access to information. Free information is a direct requirement of any democracy. It just isn't the only requirement of course.
It’s hard to provide proof of such a conspiracy due to the nature of the conspiracy is to omit information. It’s really only an impression I have when watching France 24 and AJ amongst other non-US news sources and then comparing to US sources.

For examples of stories or topics that appear to be dramatically underreported in the US:

- extremist positions of Israeli cabinet members. Including associations with Zionist terrorists, obviously very anti-Muslim/Arab but also including anti-Christian positions

- Israeli settlers expansions and history of aggressive actions

- famine conditions in Gaza

- and most simply the very high levels of casualties in Gaza, including children and women in huge numbers.

I really don’t ever hear any of those items mentioned even in left leaning US media. Now you might say well France and Qatar are biased due to more Arab listeners. Maybe a bit yeah because I think I hear less on Hamas atrocities perhaps than in US media.

Every media is biased.

Now per my other comment, once you criticize either side then you get automatically labeled as on the other side, our instinct is to use Hero-Villain frameworks, not Villain-Villain. Once you break out of that both leadership and politics on both side look really bad and weighing evil is not a good approach.
The best thing about Hacker News is that it provides all the knowledge you need to make your own suburban weapons system.

Last month it was radar [1], this month navigation!

Can you extend the tutorial to cover positioning from the elevation data? :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930195
> For example, I'm pretty sure you can find a billionaire who's very cash-poor, i.e., wealth is locked up in the value of a private company

Donald Trump comes to mind, struggling to pay $464M bond set by New York judge.
You think it's off topic? What would be an example of a reason land acknowledgments are a bad idea in Israel that wouldn't also make them a bad idea somewhere else?
I was confused why https://chat.openai.com suddenly redirects to https://chatgpt.com which results in connection refused. Turns out chatgpt.com is in many blocklists (e.g. Pi-Hole) due to it being a potentially unsafe Domain before OpenAI acquiring it. So heads up if you use Pi-Hole / AdGuard etc.!
What you're missing is that Israel is banning foreign reporters from Gaza. That's why there are none there.

It also number 1 reporter killing country in the world. Killed more than 100 in the last 365 days. Does EU kill reporters?

So stop your false comparisons.
US law is the same:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339B

EU is the same:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/terrorist-co...

UK is the same:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stricter-laws-to-tackle-t...

Why would it be surprising that Israel should follow the example of the rest of the Western world?
clang-tidy has a check for this -- it's not a compiler check but with clangd and LSP, almost every code editor can show an inline warning: https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/unch...
> humans tend to agree that in a vast array of cases state of the art LLMs do predict tokens very well

This argument is backwards. Humans don't measure the next token prediction ability of the agents they speak to, human or AI. We rate speakers on whether they seem to understand what we say in context and respond by contributing useful information and analysis.

The attributes you're saying can be inferred from known superior next token prediction ability are the things we can actually detect and measure, at least qualitatively. Next token prediction quality is not measurable by humans in any human-meaningful way. Improving test cross entropy by 50% doesn't mean anything to us. It is irrelevant except as a mechanism to train LLMs.
Well to my surprise, waypipe seems to be faster, especially when it comes to input latency and such.

I assumed it was a bit slow because of the long startup lag; but it seems it's mostly because of my slow (WiFi) network, and is even worse with X forwarding.

I just tried opening the same (simple) application through waypipe and through X forwarding, and using waypipe it's actually a lot more usable.

(Using waypipe 0.9.0-1 as packaged in Debian).
I always found something mysterious and paradoxical about 1) Peter's characterization of China as a (definite?) pessimist. 2)Peter's quip that democracy is incompatible with freedom.

For 1), I'm guessing his characterization is based on "macroeconomic" observations of China's historically high savings rate and the aversion of East Asian businesses to taking on debt. For 2) I'm guessing that he's talking about mob rule, media monoculturization and overzealous regulation , all of which an be said to be enabled by democracy.

My question is thus this: given that the younger people in china are importing western views of debt, and that immigration/leftist dominance may lead to a more neurotic climate in the west, does he imagine that there will be a flip of the global optimism/pessimism division? Ie the west becoming more pessimistic than the east.

Personally, I think the flip is more likely due to the decline (in the west) of and correspondent evolution of technical education (in the east), since it's probably easier to find technological secrets than social zero-days (in the long run).. yes yes, I understand education too is a doubled-edged sword, but in STEM it's much easier to realize your elders are mistaken AND not be similarly mistaken yourself.
Indeed: https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/unch...
If the pluggable stream abstraction platform already exists, it's probably easier and more bulletproof to use that. It's probably evolved over time for similar use cases and you can find discussion on how well it works.

If you're thinking of writing it yourself, then you will probably need six months and a whole maintenance team, and who knows how well it's actually going to work or whether it is really needed or useful.
I guess the wording is awkward, but as a trans person, I still resonate with it. I'm acutely aware it's not going to be "my voice", but neither is the one I have right now.
> They can hide behind it. "I couldn't finish the task on time because the software had a bug" - sort of stuff. "I couldn't do X because the software doesn't support Y", "The dog ate my homework", etc.

I was quite naive most of my career (and life, come to think of it). Back when I changed my first job where I spent 5 years, and was 27 at the time, I replaced one super-complex GUI program with a small GUI wrapper around 2 CLI programs. The thing worked EVERY TIME even with faulty input and on the rare occasion it did not work it gave informative error messages.

The 3 women working with it HATED my guts for it. Took me probably a year after I left to finally understand why. Yeah, I was not very bright back then.

And with time I started to think that people want e.g. Microsoft Teams because they can wipe their arse with it when the need calls for it.
I've considered Traefik for that too. We had 1800+ domains, so automatic TLS would be useful. But the OSS version didn't have good options for certificate storage imo.

Ended up using nginx and adding a .well-know/certbot endpoint orso that used lua to call certbot. Some bash, rsync & nfs for config management, never had an issue with it. Not fully automated, but close enough. And very debuggable!
there's no reason to not use hex, though.

In my post this is replying to, I mentioned "in lots of databases you can do some sql like TIMESTAMP_MILLIS(CAST(CONCAT("0x", LEFT(REPLACE(id, '-', ''), 12)) AS INT64)). This is a massive advantage over systems that use non-hex encodings."

I've had struggles with binary and base62 encodings and things and just want everyone to use hex.

Typical databases compress rows or columns anyway these days; or if they don't, then the storage does. So often the question is entropy not character count. For example storage I work with these days takes as an identical number of bytes to store a hex string as to store the same id as a byte array.
Exactly what I am wondering, these are the complex things that "Oh it just dumps out tokens" explanations don't explain.
The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all
That's completely unrelated. Obviously there exist objective facts, but outlets get to pick and chose which facts they report and which ones to hide under the rug. For example, its common for state news organizations to report enemy losses, but omit their own.
Its all well and good that MIT is now coming to it's senses, but they'd have earned much more of my respect if they had stood on evidence based approaches from the beginning.

Its easy to follow the crowd when popular opinion swings in a crazy direction. Its even easier to see the writing on the wall and be one of the first to swing back, claiming some kind of honor or bravery in doing so.

Its a win-win. Up front you don't get blasted for being racist because you don't fall in line, and on the back end you're held up as a hero when you respond to what everyone has already realized but few have adjusted to yet.
or, more realistically, underpaid unbothered border guard sucks your hard drives down bit by bit, then asks for the password or you get jailed. Its part of a bureaucratic process, so having hidden volumes is great because you can easily provide the password for the unhidden volume, they open it up, run their algorithms to check your files and boom, you're through customs without some poorly managed arm of bureaucracy having your sensitive research / IP waiting to be stolen in the next hack of your technologically inept government. Stuff like hidden volumes is great for situations where your otherwise decent habits would be kneecapped by poorly thought out bureaucratic nonsense.
They need a carrot and and stick, not just a stick.

For one thing, they need to let in the thousands of trucks of aid that are held up by their onerous inspection processes. They need the people of Gaza to see Hamas as the source of their troubles and Israel as a source of aid.

It's hard thing to do. I remember listening to Jocko Willink (a US Navy Seal) describe this difficulty in Iraq. They had to work closely with poorly trained Iraqi soldiers to help them become better trained, and they had to go out of their way to obey the rules of engagement. He had to explain to soldiers that their mission was to stabilize Iraq, not just to kill insurgents and survive the next patrol. Some of his soldiers died because of this. Those soldiers wouldn't have died if the US just dropped 2000 pound bombs on everything, but that wouldn't have accomplished the mission of stabilizing Iraq. (I know there's plenty to criticize about the Iraq war, but focus on my point please.)

I don't get the sense that the IDF is doing this. They are all stick, no carrot. Their actions will not reduce the amount of terrorism coming out of Gaza.

Remember when the Israeli hostages tried to get help and surrender? They wave a white flag, they seek help, the IDF just shoots them, and later we all recognize it was a tragedy. Well, that scene has played out hundreds of other times, but hidden, Palestinians getting killed intentionally for no good reason. If my accusations here are true we would expect to see other instances as well, such as blowing up marked international aid vehicles that are actively coordinating with the IDF--the IDF just blows them up anyway, blows up one vehicle, survivors crawl away, minutes later they blow up a second vehicles, minutes later they blow up a third vehicle. Other times, we see things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVV2_mub84

Maybe I have a blind spot in my news sources, but has the IDF done anything to show the Palestinians that they are friends, or could be friends? I know the IDF tried to give out flour once and ended up shooting several hundred Palestinians and killing about a hundred (the "flour massacre"). Maybe I've missed it, but have they ever tried that again with more success? Have they done anything to help the civilians of Gaza?

These are not actions that will reduce terrorism. These are not actions that will help the people of Gaza learn to live in peace.

I think there are plenty of actions and statements from Israeli political leaders to differentiate between a focused goal of eliminating Hamas and collective punishment and revenge, and it appears punishing all people in Gaza is one of the things they want.
My guess is that it's possible to order the first few, but after that I don't care. Top 3 may be fine, and after that perhaps switch to a tier list.

But I guess that this is the type of project where simplicity is a feature for the user, so perhaps only top 1 is better.
theres definitely improvements ofcourse. apple is not wrong trying to have more of the chain as a single vendor. i would hope amd/intel and such places might offer more help also to implement their devices easily. (implementing amd64 is really difficult imho, only acpi has some good code from the vendor and thats such a small part of whats needed).

we know kot to build a house on a bad foundation, but somehow built our techstack on a flimsy one (no one to blame, just times changing..). reinventing the wheel is the way to go, but ofcourse commercially and maybe generally kind of inviable as likely it would breal everything. i hope as stuff moves forward perhaps theres some tech leap that would allow this to naturally happen. some other architecture or so which is better and requires the rethink/rewrite.

i spend my days trying to reason about different foundations (software/firmware), but its an impossible mission, and for me merely a thought excersize. cant expect anything practical to come out of it unfortunately. and i think this last part is part of the issue. 'open source' has not the resources to fix the issues we are facing. its not meant to.
I don't think we're disagreeing about any facts here, only framing.

I wrote:

>> > They are definitely not genocidal...

You responded:

> I'll just direct you to the Hamas Charter (pdf)

But I was specifically talking in that line about the Western pro-Palestinian movement, not Hamas. In other parts of my comment, I specifically called out the position of the PA as the official representative of the Palestinians.

You really don't need to remind me of the actions of Hamas. I agree with you about them. They are clearly genocidal and, more importantly, anti-peace. (I say more importantly because they can't actually commit genocide, but they can and have blocked peace from happening.)
Is there any definitive documentation regarding what causes X11 screen tearing? I've never seen it personally and most of the complaints I see on the internet are very vague.
Just because most games do it doesn't make it right.

They allowed sales of the game in countries where you could not make a PSN account for one, only to bait and switch those users long after the grace period for refunds had expired on Steam.

Also, there was no need for a PSN account for Steam users. They cite things as "making the game safer for everyone", which doesn't make sense considering how often SONY has leaked user data.

The fact they the game is so beloved by a community that is also large and organized is probably what led to such a massive backlash in such a short amount of time.
I am very much aware of this but as I wrote, I do not consider this blocked as the servers are very much reachable and what you show is that the DNS does not resolve. That is not what I consider blocked by the state. And yes, here in Sweden, rt.com resolves just fine everywhere. That's why I was wondering about specific European legislation as it seemed to be 'only' private companies doing their part.
Zoom in a bit. Freeze Pyou to a single conversation. A single spoken sentence, then another. There isn't enough time for emotions or imagination to shift. It's you in a particular situation, with some thought to express, words flowing out of your mouth.

I don't know about you, but to me this moment feels exaxtly like being an LLM.

I keep arguing that LLMs aren't similar to humans in entirety, but rather just to the "inner voice" - the bit that feeds your consciousness strings of words, which you utter, or consider, or send back if they make no sense.
Propaganda in war times is very often directed at a domestic audience. Examples are stories like the Ghost of Kyiv on the "western side". There are examples on the Russian side too.
is this about static site hosting? I tried it, it recommended me namecheap, but I'm not sure if I have ssh access to set up anything, or it just hosts static sites.
You also have been told your name, most likely by your parents. It also had to be explained to you what you are, at some point in your life.
>You wouldn't invent the DOM and then something like React to wrangle it

Then you'll also have to reimplement accessibility features yourself. For a lot of use cases, that isn't worth the trade-off, imo.
Ha ha! Wow.
Is that really true?

I can go to a huggingface space right now and type in koala wearing a suit serving coffee at a republican rally and there's a reasonable chance I get a result that's something along those lines. Is that meaningfully different to "coffee using a macro lens"?
If you buy into crypto in the first place, Coinbase, Alchemy, and Edge and Node come to mind, as well as the Solana Foundation and Solana Labs, also the Ethereum Foundation.
Windows 95 UI recreated in a Shader
The other great thing about D is you don't need anything like that

Example:

dmd -i -Isrc/ src/main.d

and the compiler will automatically grab files you import, and when you need packages you can rely on dub, compiler is so fast that in most cases you don't need any form of caching, a full rebuild of my game takes less than 1sec
This has “I could build Slack in a weekend” energy.
That particular line is definitely directed towards people with gender identity issues.
I agree, it is as near perfect as a film can be. It does exactly what it sets out to do, the acting and casting are entirely on point, and there is no violence.
Do Individuals Matter in Institutional Economic History?
Freedom and democracy are luxuries of peacetime, unfortunately.

Fear does terrible things to many people. When the guns come out, leaders that previously were the most staunch supporters of freedom will file them away and promise to reinstate them when the war is "won".
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
Where the Wild Things Are: Second Order Risks of AI
Agreed and on moral grounds the war of Israel is far more defensible than these examples because they are directly subjected to the aggressor. That doesn't allow killings with impunity of course, but that is far from what Israel is doing.
Wasn't something like this the basis for The Andromeda Strain? The twist at the end seems to indicate the ultimate source of the bug.
Humans are capable of intricate complex thought that involves "mental states of recollection, preference, taste". However, LLMs have demonstrated pretty conclusively that most of the thoughts we have do not require any of that. Language turns out to be much simpler than previously assumed.

Thinking hard it makes your brain hurt. It's exhausting. Most of the work we do, including programming, is not like that. Some of the work we do is fiendishly difficult but much of it is more like word-completion based on prior experience.

Evolutionary processes optimize for energy efficiency. We don't think at 100% brain power all the time because we can't afford to. It makes a ton of sense, in retrospect, that our brains have optimized for language to the point that very little compute is required. And even so, the brain still consumes 20% of our daily calories.

Hard thinking is the exception and casual thinking is the norm. Why is it so hard to persuade people of anything on the internet? Because we mostly engage in LLM-like auto-completion. Very little actual thinking is involved and very few calories are spent.
Yeah, just don’t fall for that kind of BS.
> Identifying which problems are worth solving (regardless of their complexity)

I think you are completely wrong. Wouldn't the easy problems have been solved as they are by definition, easy?

If there is economic incentive to solve a problem, and it's easy problem to solve then everyone can do it. That is not true of complex problems.
But banning Russian propaganda surely is an indication of weakness. Banning RT to me also signals that Russia got good at playing the media game, which until recently was largely the playground of US and UK. There is a reason that dry Tass is not banned but snazzy RT is.
Adobe Project Neo (Beta)
Why are you so sure of this?
iPod was useless without iTunes, and I wouldn't call iTunes a curated, excellent UX. We can't only look at the beautiful light and ignore the angler fish behind it.

PS: if we include Sony's minidisk in the competion, the overall listening experience, especially the wired remote was just better. The digital walkman was still a better UX on the device side, except it has an even worse horrible PC experience and Sony barriers that made it a non starter.
> people don't believe Israel has a right to exist.

Israel was created in 1948. If that didn't happen and Israel didn't exist today, imagine how different things would be today for better or worse.

Maybe the people you're talking about believe it would have been better. Is that such a radical belief?